Amy Hensel

Amy Hensel

November awakenings

Most mornings, while I’m tuned in to the news, I listen to StarDate, a national radio science feature produced by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory.

The America I grew up in

On my way to work, I drive by a lawn sign which says, “I miss the America I grew up in.”This wistful expression, along with a book I am reading, has me looking back to the early years of my life and what I remember about current affairs through the eyes of a child.My childhood began in 1964.